A Fresh Cup is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time software developer: most of my time in recent years has been spent writing Rails, though I've dabbled in many other things and like most people who have been writing code for decades I can learn new stuff as needed.

As of October 2016, I'm not actively looking for my next job, but I'm still happy to chat about potential opportunities. I'm not able to relocate, so unless you're in the Evansville area, I'd need a completely remote gig. I have lots of experience working remote. Prefer full-time but I wouldn't be averse to an interesting contact gig. Drop me a comment if you've got something or email MikeG1 [at] larkfarm.com.

Confession time: my string of daily contributions to open source crashed and burned shortly after the last Open Source Report. Things heated up at two of my paying clients, to the point where I've been stumbling out of bed, having breakfast, and diving right into paid code. Time to give back to the community simply vanished.

So in lieu of reporting on my own accomplishments, a couple of potentially useful links to get you thinking about contributing back yourself:

Open Advice - Free 300+ page ebook where 42 open source contributors discuss the ecosystem and what they would have liked to know when they got started.

OpenHatch - Website that exists to match potential contributors with projects that can use their help (and to help you build the skills to contribute).

With those links out of the way, what's next for me? Pretty simple: it's time to climb back on the horse that threw me. There's some code I want to tweak this morning, in fact. So perhaps next week I'll have more positive actions to report.